SeoQuake Extension for Firefox: Cool, but Broken
For the last year or so, I have been regularily been using the Search Status and SEO for Firefox Firefox browser extensions as part of my daily routine for researching competition, SERPS, and sites.
On the recommendation of David Ogletree, I recently install the SeoQuake, just to test it out, and to see if it fit with my workflow better than the two plugins I am currently using. So far I am reasonably impressed, apart from a few small issues; namely that a number of the link checks performed by the tool are broken.
As you can see in the image above, a few of the functions are broken. In both the site-specific bar and the SERP checking functionality of SeoQuake, the Yahoo Link and Link Domain queries always return 0 queries. This is of course an error, since a quick check of the sources indicates that there are a few thousand backlinks returned by both. Addtionally, the MSN link check always returns an error.
This results in the broken SeoQuake being severely handicapped until these bugs are fixed; hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for the next release.
On the positive side, once these bugs are fixed, I will likely include SeoQuake in my regular toolset. Although the SERP information returned by SeoQuake is not quite comprehensive as that returned by SEO for Firefox, it loads quicker, and has a useful per-site caching system, so that if the same site is seen multiple times within different SERPS, it only fetches its information / statistics once. This leads to quicker results when researching similar SERPS within the same niche.
Overall, SeoQuake is quite a cool tool, and I think it will totally rock once they get those bugs out of the works.
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